Thursday, February 15, 2007

Quoth the server, "404!"

This was a little bizarre... Pressed a link, and instead of the usual '404 error, page not found' type of thing staring at me, I get this instead:

'It is said, "To err is human,
"To quote from alt.times.lore,
Alas, you've made an error,
So I must say, "404."

Double-check your URL,
As we all have heard before.
You wanted a file that wasn't there
And I respond, "404."

You may have made a typo--
Your fingers may be sore.
But 'til you get the location right,
You'll just get 404.

Maybe you followed a bad link,
Surfing some foreign shore;
You'll just have to tell that author
About this 404.

I'm just a lowly server
(that speaks in metaphor),
So for a request that I don't know,
I return 404.

Be glad I'm not a mainframe
That might just dump its core,
'Cause then you'd get a ten-meg file
Instead of 404.

I really would like to help you,
But I don't know what you're looking for,
And since I don't know what you want,
I give you 404.

Remember Poe, insane with longing
For his tragically lost Lenore.
Instead, you quest for files.
Quoth the server, "404!"

With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe '

A nice change methinks. Don't know the author...

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